What is your favorite style knife ?

Het Terry,

You need to edit out the link to the USN as per BF policy. Just to let you know.

It rhymes with meat
 
Link still there Terry. Go to edit and delete the link text....

Nice knife though :D
 
My personal favorite would be Ed Fowler's Prong horn, followed by Brue Evans' Dragon Slayer bowie, and simple clean linner lock folders are fast becoming a favorite
 
Well, Bowies are a personal favorite as well, but I'm a little more picky. I generally prefer the Sheffield style over the modern "Southwestern" style, but as long as it has a nice flare at the butt and a clip point proper for thrusting, it'll do. I do not care for knives on the smaller end of this genre- if it ain't got at least 10 inches of blade I won't give it a second look, with rare exceptions. 13 or 14 inch blade is about where I prefer to start out.

This is also my favorite type of knife to make, though I usually render them in miniature. Yeah, though I don't like small bowies, I love tiny ones. Go figure. They do keep the same proportion as the full sized ones, though. For a while there, I was making mostly mini folders since that's what my customers wanted, but still prefer to do the Bowies.
 
r all ur blades over 10"? aint that kinda unwieldly in the field or a fight? id have a hard time skinning deer with a machete sized blades! how does this big a knife work in the field, besides chopping brush and such?
 
OK I'll bite. Working knives of course. I have a kukri like the WWII military which I use often and a lighter agrussell one.Second is a scandinavian type 4" blade ,which if I had one made today it would have a slight drop point of S30V and a straight handle of stabilized burl . I hunt with a Browning 45-70 single shot. Does that define me completely ??
 
I love big bowies. I think 13 inches is about the perfect blade length for a big knife. A long straight clip with a little bit of recurve and an S guard.


I also like small gents knives, fixed or broken doesn't matter.
 
elvenbladesmith07 said:
r all ur blades over 10"? aint that kinda unwieldly in the field or a fight? id have a hard time skinning deer with a machete sized blades! how does this big a knife work in the field, besides chopping brush and such?
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Well, I didn't say all my knives are over 10", I just said if I'm gonna carry a Bowie, it's gonna be big enough to live up to the name. Even when the Bowie is tucked in my belt I have a folder for smaller jobs. Having said that, yes I do carry my big Bowie (18" blade, 24" overall) everywhere and use it for a myriad of tasks. Unwieldy? Well, I use it all the time for small tasks like opening the mail, have used it for skinning squirrels and deer, whittling, cutting baling twine, etc., and it works. It does work very well at removing the head and splitting the sternum on deer. The techniques are just different. I spent the whole day yesterday crawling through some of the thickest brush in the county, trying to flush out deer for my dad, and the Bowie never got in the way. I don't have to take it off when I sit down, as it just hangs over the edge of the seat on the truck, tractor, 4-wheeler, or blind. As to the second part of your question, I actually made this knife specifically for "fighting" wild animals, and I have always been very glad to have the extra reach! And since I do tend to chop brush a lot, the knife does indeed work very well for that. Yesterday I used it several times to quickly construct improvised ground blinds during deer drives, (long blade is very nice when dealing with thick brambles) and the day before it came in very handy when I encountered a medium sized tree that had fallen across the dirt road, since it was too muddy to turn around, and I didn't want to back out 1/2 mile.
 
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